Attachment for hog-oilers.



Ajv. ROWE. ATTACHMENT FOR HOG OILERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.20. 1915.

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Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

ALVIN v. ROWE, or GALEsBURe, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT FOR HOG-OILERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar, 7, 1916,

Application filed August 20, 1915. Serial No. 46,465.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALVIN V. ROWE, a citizen of the United'States, and a resident of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Hog-Oilers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to devices attachable to hog-oilers or rubbing-posts of practically any construction, which devices are adapted to apply oil or the like to and over the bellies and lower parts of an animal rubbing thereon.

the improvements herein disclosed.

The principal object of the invention is'to generally improve the construction, to increase the utility and efficiency, and .to decrease the expense attendant upon the use of devices of this character.

More specifically stated, the improvements are directed toward the provision of a novel oil-cup disk; toward the cut-0E for furnishing oil thereto; toward regulating the amount of oil furnished; toward the pro vision of co-acting portions of the oil-cup disk and oil-releasing push-button, whereby the latter cannot be displaced by movements of the animal; toward the provision of a dust, dirt and grit-collecting chamber; and toward the provision of minor features of utility, some of which will be obvious and others specifically pointed out. i

A preferred embodiment of'my improvements is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing my improvements as attached to a hog-oiler or rubbing-post of well known construction; Fig. 2, a top plan of the oil-cup disk; Fig. 3, a top plan of the valve case; Fig. a, an elevation of my improvements, assembled;

Fig. 5, an elevation of the valve-case; and

Fig. 6, a vertical central section, taken in the plane of the line 6-6 in Fig. 2. Figs. 2 to 6 inclusive are greatly enlarged with reference to Fig. 1.

Referring to the elements and, where necessary, to parts thereof, each by a distinguishing reference character, uniformly em ployed, 2 designates a platform upon which is secured a hog-,oiler comprising a base 3,

supporting post 4, tank having a bottom 6, and rubbing-plates 7 either or all of which may be of any suitable and preferred construction, it being understood that the at- The invention consists, substantially, in

tachments later herein described and which constltute my improvements, may be successfully adapted to practically any device of like or similar nature. I I

The tank-bottom 6 is provided with a threaded aperture intowhich is threaded one end of a supply-pipe 9 the other end of wh ch is threaded into an aperture 13 in a casing 10 having feet 11' resting on the platform 2 or other support.

. 1212 designate screws for securing said feetitoithe platform.

The casing 10 is provided near its upper edge wlth' radially extended ears 14 pro vided each with an aperture 15. Seated on 1 the top or upper edge of the casing 10 (which is openat its upper end) is a gasket 16 upon which'rests the flange 17 of a valve-case 18.

19 designates an annular, axially arranged projection which together with the bottom 20 ofthe case 18 provides a dirt, dust and grit collecting receptacle. The central portion of said case extends downward and its lower end is provided with a smooth bore aperture through which freely passes a screw-bolt valve-stem 21 having a threaded foot which is engaged, by a valve-closing and charge-regulating nut 22.

23 designatesan expansion springembracing the valve-stem, and 24: indicates a gasket carried on said stem and supported by said nut.

27 designates a lip adapted to prevent the nut 22 from turning when the valve-stem is being adjusted therein.

The oil-cup disk is designated by 28 and has a hub 29 provided with an axially arranged groove 30. Its face is provided with a plurality of arcuate cups 31 the sides of which are afforded one by an annular flange 32 and an arcuate embossment 32 and the sides of the others by said embossments, the ends of the cups being afforded by partitions 33. The lower end of the hub has a projection 34 through which the groove is continued. The disk is provided with apertures corresponding or registering with those in the ears 14: in the casing 10, and through eachregistering pair of these is passed a bolt 35 engaged by a nut 36.

37-indicates a gasket between the valvecasing projection 19 and a similar one on the lower face of the disk 28, and when the bolts 35 are drawn taut forms an oil-seal between said parts. f The stem' 38 of a mushroom-shaped valveseated loosely in the opening in said disk and resting on said valve-stem, a spring adapted to hold said valve-stem and thereby said valve-stem-actuating means in positions to be operated by an animal bearing upon the latter, and means for forcing liquid through said casing and onto said disk.

7. In a device of the character described, an oil-cup disk having a hub provided with an axially arranged channel, valve-actuating means provided with a projection adapted to be passed through said channel and to be turned, after such passage, out of registration therewith, a valve-structure actuated by the valve-actuating means and communicating with the opening in said hub, and a source of oil-supply communicating with said valve structure, said source adapted to force liquid past said valve structure, through the opening in the hub, and onto the disk.

8. The combination with a tank, of a casing, a pipe communicating with both thereof, a valve structure communicating with the casing, an oil-cup disk having a central opening communicating with said valve structure, animal-actuable means for opening the valve structure, a gasket between the disk and valve structure, and a gasket between the casing and valve structure, said tank adapted to force liquid through said casing, pipe, valve. structure and central opening, onto said disk.

9. A device of the nature described comprising a base having ears each of which has an aperture, an oil-cup disk having a central opening and having apertures reg- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing Washington, D. O.

istering with those in said ears, a valve structure supported by said casing and supporting said disk, bolts passed one through each registering pair of eyes in said ears and disk, nuts, one on each bolt, means for operating the valve structure, andfmeans for supplying said disk with liquid, through said casing, valve structure and central opening.

10. An oil-cupodisk having a central opening and a plurality of arcuate embossments on its-upper face, said face provided also with radially arranged partitions cutting the depressions between saidembossments, and means, communicating with said opening, for supplying liquid to said face.

11. An oil-cup disk having a central opening and having on its upper face a plurality of embossments arranged in arcs of circles, there being partitions cutting. the depressions between said embossments, and means, communicating with said opening, for supplying liquid-to said upper face. I

12. An oil-cup disk having a central opening and having a plurality of arcuate embossmen'ts arranged in gradually, descending planes, and means for supplying liquid, through said opening, to the upper face of said disk. L

13. An oil-cup disk having a central opening and having a plurality of arcuate embossments,'said disk provided with a perimetrically arranged oil-retaining rim, and means for supplying liquid, through said opening, to the upper face of said disk.

14. An oil-cup disk having a centrally arranged hub and an axially arranged projection therefrom, said portions provided with a continuous channel running longitudinally of the hub, valve-operating means rotatably mounted in said hub and having a projection adapted to be slid in said channel, valve structure operable by said valve-operating means, a casing in which said valve structure is mounted, and means for forcing liquid through said casing, valve structure and hub, onto said disk.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name this 14th day of August, 1915, at Galesburg, Illinois.

, ALVIN V. ROWE.

the Commissioner of Iatents, 

